[FFmpeg-user] FW: Converting AVI files and creating a DVD

[John Bennett]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Tim Nicholson <tim.nicholson at bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> On 06/02/12 11:35, John Bennett wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Tim Nicholson<tim.nicholson at bbc.co.uk>
>>  wrote:
>
> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Try using DVD Styler to author the DVD. This uses ffmpeg for transcoding
>>> source material, if required, and does proper indexing so seeking etc
>>> sghould work.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply, Tim, really appreciated!
>> But.... when I try using DVDStyler, trying to do a really basic DVD,
>> it either crashes on me totally, or cutting it back even more and
>> running from a terminal, I get:
>>
>> *************************************************************************************
>>
>> decode_slice_header error
>> no frame!
>> get_buffer() failed (-1 0 (nil))
>> decode_slice_header error
>> no frame!
>> Input #0, avi, from '/home/bigun/Movies/ErinWed/AVI/FILE0001.AVI':
>>   Metadata:
>>     date            : 2009-10-21
>>     ICRT            : 13:53:08
>>     comment         :
>>   Duration: 00:00:10.81, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 12289 kb/s
>>     Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main) (H264 / 0x34363248), vda_vld,
>> 1280x720 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 59.94
>> tbc
>>     Stream #0:1: Audio: adpcm_ima_wav ([17][0][0][0] / 0x0011), 48000
>> Hz, 2 channels, s16, 384 kb/s
>> Incompatible sample format 's16' for codec 'ac3', auto-selecting format
>> 'flt'
>> auto-inserting filter 'auto-inserted scale 0' between the filter 'src'
>> and the filter '(null)'
>> Impossible to convert between the formats supported by the filter
>> 'src' and the filter 'auto-inserted scale 0'
>> Error opening filters!
>> Error transcoding of /home/bigun/Movies/ErinWed/AVI/FILE0001.AVI
>>
>> *************************************************************************************
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks, John.
>
>
>
> It looks like there is something "unusual" about your source file. Can you
> try and make things work with a different file so you can see how it should
> all go? That might help to narrow things down a bit.
>
>
> --
> Tim
>
Thanks for the idea, but I have had 'some' success previously with
some video files and seen how it should work, but these files are off
a new (relatively..) video camcorder, and trying to figure out the
best way to convert. Unfortunately it is a relatively cheap (Kogan -
A$300) recorder, and even the Windows supplied software does a very
mediocre job of converting them to 'anything'... But I thought they
would have been a relatively common format??
How can I progress this??
Thanks, John.